Capital Airports Holding Company (CAH), the operator of Beijing Capital International airport expects to handle more than 60 million passengers this year, up from about 53 million last year.

CAH president, Zhang Zhizhong, says the increase in capacity is testimony to its air hub-building strategy for Beijing Airport, the biggest airport in China. "The lack of capacity has been significantly improved after the opening of Terminal 3," he adds.

Designed passenger capacity now stands at 82 million, while the designed capacity for cargo has reached 2.2 million tons and the capacity for movements during peak hours has increased to 120, says Zhizhong.

CAH owns and operates 34 airports in nine provinces as well as Beijing Airport. These include the Shenyang and Dalian airports.

"Among all our airports, in terms of passenger throughput, two of them exceed 10 million, four of them are between four million and 10 million, and three of them between two million and four million," says Zhizhong.